Sister Virginia Stallings, SSND
(formerly Sister Mary Marina)
First Profession July 1942
Motherhouse
Baltimore, Maryland
Beloved niece of Msgr. Albert T. Stallings.
Sister Virginia Stallings, who taught elementary and junior high school grades in four states for more than 25 years before becoming a high school librarian at the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore, died of arrhythmia on Jan. 27, 2013, at Maria Health Care Center in Baltimore. She was 92 years old and had recently celebrated her 70th jubilee as a professed member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
Virginia May Stallings was born on Sept. 15, 1920, in Baltimore to Grace M. (Kirkwood) and William D. Stallings. Before she was 3 years old her mother died of tuberculosis; her father died of the same disease less than four years later. Virginia was raised by her paternal grandparents and, after her grandmother's death, an aunt. She attended St. Gregory School in West Baltimore, where she first expressed interest in becoming a religious, and earned a scholarship to the former Mount St. Agnes High School in Baltimore.
In August 1939, Virginia entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame. As a novice she was given the religious name Sister Mary Marina. She professed her first vows in July 1942 and her final vows six years later. She resumed using her baptismal name, Virginia, years later.
Sister Virginia's first teaching assignment was first grade at St. Mary School in Hagerstown, Md. (1942-47). She later taught primary grades at St. Leo in Irvington, N.J. (1947-51); St. Paul the Apostle in Ellicott City, Md. (1951-53) and St. Lawrence in Sayville, N.Y. (1953-57). She also taught Grades 6 and 7 at St. Boniface in Philadelphia (1957-64) and St. Mary in Annapolis, Md. (1964-69). In 1969, Sister Virginia became the librarian at the Institute of Notre Dame high school in Baltimore, where she served for 20 years. After her semi-retirement, she continued living at IND, offering community service there. In 1992, she moved to Villa Assumpta, home to retired sisters in Baltimore County. She has lived at Maria Health Care Center since 2010.
Sister Virginia earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1957 from what is today Notre Dame of Maryland University and a master's in library science in 1972 from Villanova University.
Sister Virginia is survived by cousins Robert Kirkwood of Ellicott City, Md., and Bernice Pescosolido of Bonita Springs, Fla. An uncle, Monsignor Albert T. Stallings of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died in 1990.
Memorial contributions may be made to the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Atlantic-Midwest Province, c/o Mission Advancement Office, 345 Belden Hill Road, Wilton, CT 06897.
(School Sisters of Notre Dame, Atlantic-Midwest Province)
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord!
(formerly Sister Mary Marina)
First Profession July 1942
Motherhouse
Baltimore, Maryland
Beloved niece of Msgr. Albert T. Stallings.
Sister Virginia Stallings, who taught elementary and junior high school grades in four states for more than 25 years before becoming a high school librarian at the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore, died of arrhythmia on Jan. 27, 2013, at Maria Health Care Center in Baltimore. She was 92 years old and had recently celebrated her 70th jubilee as a professed member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
Virginia May Stallings was born on Sept. 15, 1920, in Baltimore to Grace M. (Kirkwood) and William D. Stallings. Before she was 3 years old her mother died of tuberculosis; her father died of the same disease less than four years later. Virginia was raised by her paternal grandparents and, after her grandmother's death, an aunt. She attended St. Gregory School in West Baltimore, where she first expressed interest in becoming a religious, and earned a scholarship to the former Mount St. Agnes High School in Baltimore.
In August 1939, Virginia entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame. As a novice she was given the religious name Sister Mary Marina. She professed her first vows in July 1942 and her final vows six years later. She resumed using her baptismal name, Virginia, years later.
Sister Virginia's first teaching assignment was first grade at St. Mary School in Hagerstown, Md. (1942-47). She later taught primary grades at St. Leo in Irvington, N.J. (1947-51); St. Paul the Apostle in Ellicott City, Md. (1951-53) and St. Lawrence in Sayville, N.Y. (1953-57). She also taught Grades 6 and 7 at St. Boniface in Philadelphia (1957-64) and St. Mary in Annapolis, Md. (1964-69). In 1969, Sister Virginia became the librarian at the Institute of Notre Dame high school in Baltimore, where she served for 20 years. After her semi-retirement, she continued living at IND, offering community service there. In 1992, she moved to Villa Assumpta, home to retired sisters in Baltimore County. She has lived at Maria Health Care Center since 2010.
Sister Virginia earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1957 from what is today Notre Dame of Maryland University and a master's in library science in 1972 from Villanova University.
Sister Virginia is survived by cousins Robert Kirkwood of Ellicott City, Md., and Bernice Pescosolido of Bonita Springs, Fla. An uncle, Monsignor Albert T. Stallings of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died in 1990.
Memorial contributions may be made to the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Atlantic-Midwest Province, c/o Mission Advancement Office, 345 Belden Hill Road, Wilton, CT 06897.
(School Sisters of Notre Dame, Atlantic-Midwest Province)
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord!
Sister Virginia Stallings, SSND
(formerly Sister Mary Marina)
First Profession July 1942
Motherhouse
Baltimore, Maryland
Beloved niece of Msgr. Albert T. Stallings.
Sister Virginia Stallings, who taught elementary and junior high school grades in four states for more than 25 years before becoming a high school librarian at the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore, died of arrhythmia on Jan. 27, 2013, at Maria Health Care Center in Baltimore. She was 92 years old and had recently celebrated her 70th jubilee as a professed member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
Virginia May Stallings was born on Sept. 15, 1920, in Baltimore to Grace M. (Kirkwood) and William D. Stallings. Before she was 3 years old her mother died of tuberculosis; her father died of the same disease less than four years later. Virginia was raised by her paternal grandparents and, after her grandmother's death, an aunt. She attended St. Gregory School in West Baltimore, where she first expressed interest in becoming a religious, and earned a scholarship to the former Mount St. Agnes High School in Baltimore.
In August 1939, Virginia entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame. As a novice she was given the religious name Sister Mary Marina. She professed her first vows in July 1942 and her final vows six years later. She resumed using her baptismal name, Virginia, years later.
Sister Virginia's first teaching assignment was first grade at St. Mary School in Hagerstown, Md. (1942-47). She later taught primary grades at St. Leo in Irvington, N.J. (1947-51); St. Paul the Apostle in Ellicott City, Md. (1951-53) and St. Lawrence in Sayville, N.Y. (1953-57). She also taught Grades 6 and 7 at St. Boniface in Philadelphia (1957-64) and St. Mary in Annapolis, Md. (1964-69). In 1969, Sister Virginia became the librarian at the Institute of Notre Dame high school in Baltimore, where she served for 20 years. After her semi-retirement, she continued living at IND, offering community service there. In 1992, she moved to Villa Assumpta, home to retired sisters in Baltimore County. She has lived at Maria Health Care Center since 2010.
Sister Virginia earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1957 from what is today Notre Dame of Maryland University and a master's in library science in 1972 from Villanova University.
Sister Virginia is survived by cousins Robert Kirkwood of Ellicott City, Md., and Bernice Pescosolido of Bonita Springs, Fla. An uncle, Monsignor Albert T. Stallings of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died in 1990.
Memorial contributions may be made to the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Atlantic-Midwest Province, c/o Mission Advancement Office, 345 Belden Hill Road, Wilton, CT 06897.
(School Sisters of Notre Dame, Atlantic-Midwest Province)
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord!
(formerly Sister Mary Marina)
First Profession July 1942
Motherhouse
Baltimore, Maryland
Beloved niece of Msgr. Albert T. Stallings.
Sister Virginia Stallings, who taught elementary and junior high school grades in four states for more than 25 years before becoming a high school librarian at the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore, died of arrhythmia on Jan. 27, 2013, at Maria Health Care Center in Baltimore. She was 92 years old and had recently celebrated her 70th jubilee as a professed member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
Virginia May Stallings was born on Sept. 15, 1920, in Baltimore to Grace M. (Kirkwood) and William D. Stallings. Before she was 3 years old her mother died of tuberculosis; her father died of the same disease less than four years later. Virginia was raised by her paternal grandparents and, after her grandmother's death, an aunt. She attended St. Gregory School in West Baltimore, where she first expressed interest in becoming a religious, and earned a scholarship to the former Mount St. Agnes High School in Baltimore.
In August 1939, Virginia entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame. As a novice she was given the religious name Sister Mary Marina. She professed her first vows in July 1942 and her final vows six years later. She resumed using her baptismal name, Virginia, years later.
Sister Virginia's first teaching assignment was first grade at St. Mary School in Hagerstown, Md. (1942-47). She later taught primary grades at St. Leo in Irvington, N.J. (1947-51); St. Paul the Apostle in Ellicott City, Md. (1951-53) and St. Lawrence in Sayville, N.Y. (1953-57). She also taught Grades 6 and 7 at St. Boniface in Philadelphia (1957-64) and St. Mary in Annapolis, Md. (1964-69). In 1969, Sister Virginia became the librarian at the Institute of Notre Dame high school in Baltimore, where she served for 20 years. After her semi-retirement, she continued living at IND, offering community service there. In 1992, she moved to Villa Assumpta, home to retired sisters in Baltimore County. She has lived at Maria Health Care Center since 2010.
Sister Virginia earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1957 from what is today Notre Dame of Maryland University and a master's in library science in 1972 from Villanova University.
Sister Virginia is survived by cousins Robert Kirkwood of Ellicott City, Md., and Bernice Pescosolido of Bonita Springs, Fla. An uncle, Monsignor Albert T. Stallings of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died in 1990.
Memorial contributions may be made to the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Atlantic-Midwest Province, c/o Mission Advancement Office, 345 Belden Hill Road, Wilton, CT 06897.
(School Sisters of Notre Dame, Atlantic-Midwest Province)
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord!
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